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Italian round table on next generation metadata: Interoperability, Sustainability and More

March 19, 2021March 25, 2021 - by Annette Dortmund - Leave a Comment

As part of the discussion series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the Italian language round table discussion that took place on March 2, 2021.  (Edit: An …

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First English round table on next generation metadata: towards a critical mass of interoperable library data

March 17, 2021March 23, 2021 - by Titia van der Werf - Leave a Comment

As part of the OCLC Research Discussion Series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the first English language round table discussion held on March 2, 2021.    The session was scheduled to facilitate a broad audience from the EMEA time …

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Next Generation Metadata… it’s getting real!

March 4, 2021March 16, 2021 - by Titia van der Werf - 1 Comment

This spring, OCLC Research are running a discussion series on Next Generation Metadata, where library leaders, metadata experts and practitioners from the EMEA time zone (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) …

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Archives and Special Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Metadata

Terms of use for finding aids: the time to open up has come!

July 25, 2018 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Sometimes projects take a long time to come to fruition. An excellent (and recent) example of this is the Terms of Use and Re-Use for Finding Aid Metadata project which was launched …

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Six Years of Tracking MARC Usage

March 19, 2018March 16, 2018 - by Roy Tennant

We have been tracking the use of the MARC standard, as evidenced in WorldCat records (now well over 400 million!) for six years. Not only have we reported on how …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership

Who should take the Survey of Research Information Management Practices?

November 15, 2017August 21, 2020 - by Rebecca Bryant

Is it someone in the library? Or maybe in the office of institutional research? What about the office of the vice president for research? Or maybe the provost’s or rector’s …

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Take the OCLC-euroCRIS survey of research information management practices

October 25, 2017October 12, 2020 - by Rebecca Bryant

Research information management (RIM), also often called Current Research Information Systems (CRISs), is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of metadata about research activities. Institutional RIM adoption, in tandem with activities …

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“MARC Must Die” 15 Years On

October 15, 2017October 15, 2017 - by Roy Tennant - 6 Comments.

Fifteen years ago to the day I declared that “MARC Must Die” in Library Journal. It sparked a firestorm of criticism, mostly from the cataloging community, and several invitations to …

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MARC: The Neck Pillow of Bibliographic Data

July 5, 2017July 5, 2017 - by Roy Tennant

Now that I have your attention with that bizarre title, let me explain. Recently I gave a keynote talk at the IATUL Annual Conference in Bolzano, IT. Since I had …

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Collective Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Systemwide Organization

Securing the Collective Print Books Collection: Progress to Date

June 19, 2017August 21, 2020 - by Rick Lugg

In 2012, Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) and the Michigan Shared Print Initiative (MI-SPI) undertook one of the first shared print monographs projects in the US. Seven libraries came together under …

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